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Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

AWS Lambda ESM Support

Currently, the NodeJS instrumentation for AWS Lambda only supports CommonJS modules. As of earlier this year, AWS Lambda supports ES Modules which bring a variety of benefits. Because of this, we're having to manually trace NodeJS lambdas.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Delivered

Change the fix in Release 227 that show a message "Widget is not supported in Live Mode"

Release 227 include a fix (?) to disable the information and show a message in some AP widgets (Top Services, Top Endpoints, Processing Time) when live mode is enabled. The fix is annoying because we loose the visibility over those rankings and me...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Delivered